Edward M. Goldberg

The idea of reverse charges on a phone call are not new.  But “please reverse the charges” for a download? This a great new idea.  Now you can make files that users down load from the internet at the cost of the user.  It is also possible to set a fee for the download. All of this just shows that Cloud Computing is breaking the mold and stirring up the whole question of fees.  With new features all of the time, it does get very hard to keep up with the new tools. It is now more important than ever to read the news and keep up to date with what can be done. ... (more)

The AWS EC2 Instance Missing Users Guide

When you get a new car you look into the glove box and find a small book that explains the day to day operation of the car.  The same is true for your laptop. What happened to the users guide for the AWS EC2 Servers? First of all AWS calls them instances and gives them strange names like i-12345678 that are not very easy to remember.  So to start off most users are lost just finding the server they just Launched (like a boat?). This document covers the basics.  How to use a new server (read instance) you booted up (Launched) in AWS EC2. After you read this document you will know ... (more)

How to you prove you met the performance SLA?

The way to prove that you meet the SLA requirements is: By setting up several external servers that watch your servers. When I set up a deployment in the Cloud I also set up several ways to check and see if the service works well.  The more ways I can find to check and check the servers that check (and test them if I get a chance) the better feeling I get the next time I am asked: How well are you doing,  does the service meet the SLA? So What services are around? I just found a new service called: http://WebCron.Org They are in France. This is great. One more opinion from a server... (more)

RightScale and SPLUNK a great team to have on your side.

SPLUNK> just added Partner templates and Scripts (RightScrips) to the http://RightScale.com service. This is a great pair to have on your team.  These two players add depth of monitoring to your Deployments.  RightScale takes the low level server meterics very nicely and SPLUNK> watches all of the application logs for you. Now with this pair set up on every server in every Cloud Deployment.  You have one place to search the indexed logs for all of your servers and control all of the Deployments in any location from one place. I will be doing a Webinar talking with Michael Wilde of... (more)

How to Leverage Amazon AWS RDS today

Today, AWS Amazon RDS (Relational Database Servers in the AWS Cloud) are a new Beta and needs to be used as a “peek at that the future” for the IT staff and CTO.  Developers need to wrap their minds around Relational Database as a service.  The time has come for this to be a real SaaS. The “Big Table” was easy to “pu pu” and say “It does not fit the model”.  RDS is the “real thing” a transactional Relational Database with all the bells and … IMHO,  we need to start looking at this new model by placing non-mission critical Backup Systems for Fail Over in RDS.  The cost of transfer... (more)